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I can't not put humor in a book.

Albert Brooks

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Albert Brooks
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: July 22
Actor
Film Actor
Film Director
Screenwriter
Television Actor
Voice Actor
Writer
Beverly Hills
California
Albert Lawrence Brooks
Albert Lawrence Einstein
A. Brooks
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Humor

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I've done performances in movies that I was immensely proud of and the movies didn't take off like a rocket at Cape Canaveral, it didn't take off.
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Be generous and you can be the best person who ever lived.
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If you're going to act and do this for a living, you want to play something that the audience didn't expect.
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I've always felt like I work in a small little area that doesn't represent anything like the rest of society.
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Twitter, to me, works if you're funny. Twitter doesn't work as a promotional tool unless you do it very, very, very occasionally.
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Film is the cheapest part of the movie making process. The expense is the 100-man crew and the financing and everything.
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I've always been the king of silence. I've always been a minimalist comedian. I've taken my influence from Jack Benny, who was the king of that I've always done 'less is more.'
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If you look at the best-seller list for American fiction, they're all sequels to detective stories or stories about hunting serial killers. That's what's called American fiction these days.
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Donald Trump announces this morning that he will run for president. His hair will announce on Friday.
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Even though my father was a radio comedian, it wasn't cool to say, at a young age, 'I want to be a comedian.'
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Regrets are stupid they don't mean anything and they don't add up to anything.
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I take anything other than 'you big pig!' as a compliment.
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My mother was supportive without knowing it. Deep down she wanted all the right things, she just didn't see the world like I did, and she's not supposed to.
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In my screenplays - from the very beginning I've always used tape. I talk my screenplays. And then have somebody transcribe them.
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I come from the place where I am thinking 'I have put my blood on the pages.'
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I was in Kashmir last weekend. Went to visit one of my sweaters.
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I'm not interesting enough on my own that you'd want to see a film about me.
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There's nothing funny about flying to Houston.
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